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It can't happen to me.

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That's what you said, wasn't it Bill?

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But it can and just didn't,
you're not quite sure why.

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Let's see if we can find out.

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Not too many minutes ago, that young woman
and her child were happy and healthy.

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Now their young bodies are
crushed and racked with pain.

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Maybe they'll live and maybe they'll die.

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But one thing's sure, the next few minutes,
hours or maybe days, their

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lives will hang in the balance.

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And you'll have to live out those minutes,
hours and

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days, knowing you were responsible.

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The police will measure out the skid marks,
determine where you applied the

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brakes, give you a sobriety
test and it will all go into a

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report that will be reviewed in court.

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Maybe you'll be found guilty, maybe you won't.

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But you'll never outlive the memory of waiting.

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Waiting to find out if the mother
and daughter will live or die.

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Then the police are at you with questions.

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Where had you been?

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Had you been drinking?

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Would you submit to a sobriety test?

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Sure, why not?

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After all, you'd only had a few beers,
you're not drunk.

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Of course you're not drunk,
not in the common sense of the word.

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But your driving ability
was measurably impaired.

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How could it be? You feel fine.

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But what you didn't know was that it only
takes a few beers to take the keen edge

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off your driving performance
and slow your reaction time.

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You see, alcohol is not a stimulant.

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It's a sedative, a depressant.

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Oh sure, the first few drinks make
you feel more alive and responsive.

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But actually as the alcohol enters
the bloodstream, it slows down normal

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operation of the heart and
nerve centers and depresses the

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inhibitory mechanisms of the brain.

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It removes inhibitions and social restraints.

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This is what gives us the
feeling of stimulation.

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You have more assurance but less self-control.

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And this is when the danger begins.

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You get a Superman complex behind the
wheel at the very time when you're driving

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skill and mental outlook
have been seriously damaged.

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When ethyl alcohol, which is the foundation
of all liquor, enters the circulatory

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system through the stomach,
it's oxidized by the liver and turned into heat

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energy in the form of calories.

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Unfortunately, the liver can only
process about 3 eighths of an

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ounce of alcohol per hour.

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That's about the amount in 3 quarters of
a shot glass of whiskey or a short beer.

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When more alcohol is taken, the liver is
unable to process it and it passes into

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the bloodstream and is carried
to all parts of the body.

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As the percentage of alcohol begins to
build up in the bloodstream, the first

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part of your nervous system to be affected
is your judgment center located in

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the frontal lobe of the brain.

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This is the area of the brain
that determines right from wrong.

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The alcohol works as an anesthetic
and we adopt a I don't care or

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sure I can make it attitude.

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We contemplate stupid things like
passing on a curve or a hill.

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We become easily exasperated by the driver
we feel isn't going fast enough and we

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take chances we wouldn't
ordinarily take to pass him.

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True enough, we're not drunk,
at least not legally drunk.

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By that we mean our blood alcohol content
is still below the 0.15% considered by

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law to be legally intoxicated.

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But those few beers we had can reduce our
driving ability as much as 25 to 40%.

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A report by the American Medical Association
clearly showed that two shots of 100

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proof whiskey or two 12 ounce bottles of
beer can inject a dangerous amount of

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alcohol into our system if we're driving.

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And the worst part is that we
probably aren't aware of it.

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Even an hour after having a couple of beers,
our reaction time to light signals

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can be reduced as much as 6%.

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In another test that was shown that after
a three ounce drink, it took as much as

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12 seconds for a person to regain his
normal sight after being blinded by the

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lights of an oncoming car.

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At 60 miles an hour that would be
over a thousand feet or a fifth of

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a mile of blind driving.

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Alcohol sometimes causes visual distortion too.

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Things become blurred and indistinct.

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Another problem which often goes
unnoticed by the driver but is no less

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dangerous is tunnel vision.

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Tunnel vision is a phenomena
where your field of vision

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becomes increasingly narrow.

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That is your periphery or
sight vision is decreased.

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This makes you vulnerable to cross traffic
and is often the cause of sight swipe

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or intersection accidents.

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The National Safety Council says that
two normal cocktails or four beers can

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reduce visual acuity as much as
wearing dark glasses at night.

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Not only a fool would drive at night
wearing dark glasses but nobody thinks much

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about driving after four beers.

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The effect of alcohol on vision is
particularly serious because 90% of the

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driving decisions we make are
based on how well we see.

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So if you must drive, don't drink.

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If you do drink and must drive, wait.

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Let the effects of the alcohol wear off.

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A good rule of thumb, wait one hour for
each bottle of beer or alcohol you take

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the longer you should wait
until it is safe to drive.

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Because the danger of having
an accident increases with the

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amount of alcohol in your system.

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For instance, under identical driving
conditions, a person with 0.05% alcohol in

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his blood, that's about two drinks or a
few beers, is twice as likely to have an

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accident as a person with
no alcohol in his blood.

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With 0.10%, three to six drinks or a
couple of quarts of beer, the chances

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are three times as great.

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And when the blood alcohol has reached 0.
15%, which is the legal limit, the

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chances are ten times as great.

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A common misapprehension of the
drinking driver is that when he

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first drinks, that is during the absorption
period as it's sometimes referred to,

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the individual readily feels
the effects of the alcohol.

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But during the wearing off period,
he becomes less aware of these effects and

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deludes himself into thinking he is sober.

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But he is falsely comparing his maximum
feeling of intoxication with his

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beginning feeling of sobriety.

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He may be far from sober and is
only making a dangerous comparison.

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We are all aware that alcohol and gasoline
don't mix, but many of us think it

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can't happen to us.

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But it can and does in ever
increasing numbers each year.

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And it isn't until we have an accident
that we seriously ask ourselves

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why we have that extra drink.

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We all find excuses for drinking.

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Bills weren't so different from the rest.
A need to belong, a desire to go along

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with a group, try something new.

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It may start innocently enough,
a few beers with a gang.

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It is a social custom of our time.

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But today that social custom
is invading our society at a

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younger age than ever before.

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The few drinks that the social
drinker may take don't seem

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to present a serious danger.

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But the trouble with drinking and driving
is that it is always too late when the

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emergency arises and our reactions
are too slow to avoid disaster.

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It is readily agreed by authorities and
tests that driving skills are to a degree

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a matter of habit,
build up over long periods of practice.

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It has also been proven that the latest
driving skills mastered are the first to

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go when under the influence of liquor.

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Therefore, the older, more experienced
driver is less likely to have his skills

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seriously impaired than the younger,
less experienced driver.

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One must be able to judge speed and distance,
follow traffic patterns, make

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necessary adjustments and be able
to react quickly to emergencies.

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After a few drinks, the good driver
is no longer capable of doing this.

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He has become a poor driver and is
a danger to himself and others.

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This happened to you, didn't it, Bill?

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Sure, you passed your sobriety test.

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It showed you had only .
08% blood alcohol, about half the legal limit.

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They can't convict you on drunk driving,
can they?

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But you'll always have to face the fact
that those beach party beers were a

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contributing factor in your accident.

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If you hadn't had them,
you might have hit the brake

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pedal a second or two earlier.

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Those skid marks on the asphalt would
have stopped on the right side, not the

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wrong side of that young
woman and her daughter.

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The report just came through.

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The little girl died on the way
to the hospital and the mother

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will probably never walk again.

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No matter how your trial comes out,
you'll always have to

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live with those facts, won't you, Bill?

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A child dead, a mother crippled.

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Not a pleasant future to face at the age of 18.

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